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$50,000 Bail For Bronx High School Student Suspected Of Attempted Rape

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Bronx high school student turned in by his classmates in connection with an attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl will face arraignment Friday.

Darrien Warren, 17, was charged as an adult with attempted rape in the incident. He was also charged with sexual abuse in connection with a groping involving an 11-year-old last year.

Students at the Eagle Academy saw surveillance video police released from the incident, and identified Warren as the suspect when he arrived at school on Thursday, police said.

Police said the suspect followed the girl into an apartment building on Hoffman Street around 3:40 p.m. on Wednesday.

The suspect followed the girl up the stairs to the fifth floor where he grabbed her from behind, pulled her down to the ground and attempted to rape her, police said.

The girl resisted and the suspect took off with her iPhone, police said.

NPYD School Safety agents arrested Warren, and he was charged at the Bronx Special Victims Unit, police said.

"If you see something, you've got to say something," said Ely Quinones, who lives on the street where the attack happened

Police say on May 9, 2014, in the Bronx, Warren grabbed an 11-year-old girl's buttocks as she exited the elevator of her building.

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